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So billions of foreign dollars brought in to create Wahibism and to fight a propaganda war against our Republican form of government doesn't concern you. I don't share your view.

There is a bad tendency on FR for people to mislabel anything that refutes their point as a straw-man.

You misrepresented my argument to make it easier to attack it. Call it what you like. But however you decide to refer to that strategy, I'm not interested in participating in it.

The anticommunists were not zealots.

Ok. I've presented my argument, and you've presented yours. I suppose we could continue saying the same thing over and over again, but I don't see much hope for common ground.

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You misrepresented my argument to make it easier to attack it. Call it what you like. But however you decide to refer to that strategy, I'm not interested in participating in it.

Call it what I like?? Words have meanings. Check out a dictionary if you don't believe me. As for misrepresenting your arguments, I did no such thing. I introduced a relevant and current analogy. I guess it made you uncomfortable with your argument, so you chose to dismiss it.

Facts are stubborn things. I suggest that you actually check out the history instead of the NYT version. You will be astonished to find that what you think you know is actually a myth created by the left to cover their own involvement in Soviet overtures.